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Had Obama acted like the people's champion he was elected to be, he would be as reviled by the right as FDR was, but the people would be with him.
Andrew Christie, Los Osos, California
Fareed Zakaria laments what he sees as President Obama's working almost entirely with and through the Democrats in Congress, and failing to reach out to Republicans with "serious compromise." In fact, Obama and the Democrats have bent over backward, even alienating their most ardent backers, to please an intransigent Republican Party. This health-care bill has become a stinking sausage precisely because of the desperate need to extract every last vote to overcome a filibuster by the Republicans and so-called moderates that Zakaria advises Obama to continue to court. If even two or three Republican members of Congress had seen past their partisanship to reach across the aisle, the bill could have been much more simple, effective, and free of the need to appease special interests. This president will have the ability to "act presidential" and lead just as soon as there is an opposition entity that can say something besides "no."
Shel Khipple, Wilmette, Illinois
'The Trouble With Barack'
I'm amazed at how you've misconstrued the anger at President Obama. That anger comes from supporters who swept him into office based on his progressive rhetoric. He had a clear mandate to challenge "the Man." Instead, he became "the Man." He has shown a total lack of leadership and has done nothing but capitulate to the right and to Wall Street.
Michele Davis, New Canaan, Connecticut
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Jon Meacham writes well and raises thought-provoking points. But—and I speak here as a fiscal conservative—I think he is wrong. Any pundit who pretends the president's only problem is that he doesn't communicate his feelings well enough not only kids himself but does the public a disservice. The president views businesspeople as makers of "excess profits" and has an aversion to tax cuts that might stimulate growth, preferring instead highly targeted and narrow cuts—as in the stimulus bill—that do not encourage investments in business. It's not about how he communicates. It's about how he thinks, and how he decides.
Jim Somers, Simsbury, Connecticut
The article was a sorry attempt to try and rationalize President Obama's far-left policies and beliefs. The president is a socialist ideologue trying to change America into something it will never be—a socialist state.
William Parker, Selma, California
Correction
In "On the Ground in Haiti," we said a Doctors Without Borders medical team had recently been kicked out of a Haitian hospital by the U.S. military. In fact, it was Canadian troops that were involved. Newsweek regrets the error.
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